SIG Event - Documenting Marginalized Communities: So Yun Um and the Politics of Asian American Documentaries

Please join us for the following Scholarly Intersections Event on Tuesday, November 10 5-7 pm in MMC-100:

 

Documenting Marginalized Communities:  So Yun Um and the Politics of Asian American Documentaries

 

Join us for a conversation with So Yun Um, filmmaker and CSULB Alumna (B.A., Film/Cinema/Video Studies, 2011).   Um is a Korean American Director and Producer born and based in Los Angeles. She explores intimate and challenging stories of marginalized people with piercing humanity and poignant editing style. 

 

Her directorial debut documentary feature film, LIQUOR STORE DREAMS, focusing upon second generation Korean American children of liquor store owners in the LA area, made its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.  She was a 2022-2023 BAFTA Breakthrough USA participant, an alumnus of the 2021 CAAM Fellowship, and the Armed with a Camera Fellowship from Visual Communications.

 

So Yun is currently working on her sophomore feature documentary AMERICANA BANG BANG (Supported by Firelight Fund and Catapult Fund), an examination of Asian Americans' evolving views on gun ownership and violence in the U.S.

 

All students, faculty, staff, and the public are welcome.  For questions, please contact Larry Hashima (larry.hashima@csulb.edu)

 

Sponsored by CLA Scholarly Intersections, the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies, and the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies.